In the meantime, leadership is not enough
Netherlands screw the victory
Updated on February 21, 2025 – 11:03 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At the start of the Nations League, the Wück team gets a point with the effective Dutch women. A Bundesliga star mercilessly uses the Germans in defense.
Wolfsburg’s star striker Lineth Beerensteyn has screwed up an optimal start to the Nations League to the German footballers. In the 2: 2 (1: 1) in the Netherlands, the 28-year-old attacker used the weaknesses in the DFB defense twice mercilessly (13th and 66th minute).
Bavaria’s Lea Schüller (45.+1) and Sjoeke Nüsken (50th) provided the guest goals in front of around 11,000 fans in the first competitive game under national coach Christian Wück. In a changeable game, the draw was fine for both teams.
For the German selection, the next game in the Nations League is already coming up next Tuesday. Then in Nuremberg against Austria again at three points (from 6.15 p.m. live in the ticker at T-Online).
The team of Oranje coach Andries Jonker, especially Beerensteyn, first caught the better start. The Wolfsburg woman sprinted away from the DFB debutant Rebecca Knaak, after a steep pass through the remarkably open defense, effortlessly and then pushed the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger to 1-0.
Neuling Knaak, again in the DFB squad for over nine years, looked a bit shaky in the initial phase-which was true for the entire German defense around captain Giulia Gwinn and deputy Janina Minge.
Not only missed the sophistication and play of play on the sidelines. The players themselves also noticed in the middle of the first half how ideasless they trotted across the square. During an interruption, they formed a circle in which Schüller and Gwinn mainly made announcements.
Afterwards, Laura Freight gave a miserably two good occasions before Schüller, after a soulful cross from Klara Bühl, almost scored 1-1 with the break whistle. Around 350 German fans waved their flags.
After the change of sides, the next jubilation scream from the guest block echoed through the stadium. Gwinn used Jule Brand, which fit in the penalty area soulingly. The Chelsea player flatly completed the elegant combination for leadership. And shortly afterwards, Schüller almost increased to Bühl’s flank, but failed with goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar.
In a phase in which the Germans seemed noticeably better in the game, Beerensteyn set the next stitch. She benefited from two position errors of the guests: Sarai Linder and Bühl died on the left defense side who had to take care of the flankener Chasity Grant; In the center, Gwinn had berrynstyns come to the header undisturbed in her back. Berger flew in vain.
Towards the end, it was more of the Dutch who crowded to victory, although Wück in Linda Dallmann, Vivien Endemann, Selina Cerci and Felicitas Rauch relied on four fresh forces.